Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 170: Level Overpowering

Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Level Overpowering

Compared to the pristine condition of this painting, the surrounding environment appears exceptionally old and dirty.

The red tiles from the roof had fallen inside, haphazardly piled up, and the decayed wooden furniture had carbonized into a black, unrecognizable mass.

The gray-white stone wall on which the painting was hung was already covered with a thick layer of dust-colored ash, with its surface even showing signs of weathering.

Thinking to himself, Anvis donned the Mercury Eyes, pouring magic power into them, activating the True Vision effect.

A faint silver-white radiance enveloped the crystal-clear circular lenses. The entire world before him suddenly brightened, and everything within view was coated with a silver sheen.

Under True Vision, all hidden objects would reveal their original forms.

The Frostwind Knight Jom at his side appeared as a thick, deep cyan color in True Vision.

Although he had suppressed his own magic aura, under the close observation of True Vision, the highly concentrated Frostwind Magic gathered around him was still visible.

As Jom had said, this painting was not an anomalous element.

In the True Vision of the Mercury Eyes, the body of the oil painting became somewhat ethereal, but did not display the ghostly glow unique to anomalous elements.

This ethereal nature indicated that the painting was just part of the local anomalous phenomena, not a real, tangible oil painting.

Moreover, not only did the painting display this sense of ethereality, but the weathered stone walls, the ruined rubble, and the stone pillars of the half-destroyed building also became somewhat ethereal in several places.

After a moment of silence, Anvis slowly raised his hand, and a sphere of icy blue Cold Flames appeared out of thin air, floating in the palm of his hand, emitting a bone-chilling cold light.

This was a special Class Magic Ability developed by Anvis, combining his two Legendary Bloodlines’ elemental control abilities with the knowledge from a Seventh Rank Master Mage from his past life—[Extreme Cold Freeze Light]

Although it appeared similar to flames, its core was made entirely of pure Ice and Light elements.

Following a specific spell structure, Anvis intertwined them to create this special fused form.

Under this ingenious spell structure, the Ice Element condensed into numerous highly corrosive tiny icy crystals of extreme cold, while the Light Element endlessly refracted among these cloud-like tiny icy crystals along specific trajectories.

Combining the extreme cold of the Ice Element and the penetrative power of the Light Element, with Anvis’s current strength, the lethal power was enough to reach the peak of Third Rank.

Although operating both bloodlines’ abilities simultaneously would lead to a considerable increase in magic power consumption, with his own deep reserves of magic power, as long as he did not maintain it for a long time, he should be able to withstand this consumption.

Supporting the sphere of Extreme Cold Freeze Light in his palm, Anvis slowly moved it towards the oil painting.

He did not know why a clearly anomalous painting generated a vague sense of attraction towards him.

But if it truly hid some secret, then this action should be enough to test out a result.

In the True Vision, the moment the icy blue Cold Flames touched the surface of the painting, a transparent, ethereal ripple suddenly spread out.

Like a popped bubble, the entire painting directly disintegrated and disappeared, leaving behind only the gray-white weathered wall.

Looking at this scene, Anvis shook his head, slightly disappointed.

A very ordinary result, the manner in which the painting dissipated was no different from how ordinary anomalies temporarily disappear when interfered with by a powerful attack.

This is a unique property of the Anomaly Zone: except for power at the rule level, the various strange phenomena within the Anomaly Zone do not disappear due to external interference.

Even if a powerful attack destroys the entire environment of the Anomaly Zone, after some time, everything in the environment will restore itself as if time had reversed.

Squeezing his palm, Anvis put away the Cold Flames in his hand.

But just as he was about to turn off True Vision, a dense pitch-black color flashed across the edge of his vision.

"Hmm?"

Anvis immediately turned around, sweeping his gaze across the entire house like a sharp sword.

There seemed to be nothing unusual inside.

However, upon closer inspection, Anvis suddenly noticed that in a damaged corner of the house, within the deep passage of the broken brick fireplace, there seemed to be a vague black humanoid shape hidden!

The upper half of the humanoid shape was hidden in the passage, while the lower half was exposed, but against the dark backdrop of the fireplace, it appeared blurry and indistinct.

"What is that, Jom?"

Anvis frowned, raising his guard while signaling towards the fireplace.

"That is also a part of the anomaly, Sir Anvis,"

Frostwind Knight Jom glanced at the direction of the fireplace and explained to Anvis.

"Although it doesn’t look very safe, I don’t sense any threat from it."

As he spoke, Jom casually lifted a finger, and a thin ice-blue Sword Qi condensed at his fingertip, which he threw towards the black humanoid shape hiding in the fireplace.

Although it seemed unremarkable, the speed of the Sword Qi was astonishingly fast, almost like a beam of light, and it instantly hit the shadow in the fireplace.

Affected by this Sword Qi, the surface of the fireplace instantly formed a large patch of white frost, and the black humanoid shape that was directly hit by the Sword Qi instantly dissipated into a ripple of illusion.

"You see, just like the painting that just dissipated, besides being able to move, that shadow has no significant difference from the painting."

Jom spread his hands.

After that, he pondered for a moment and added another sentence.

"Of course, if it were Professionals of Second Rank or below encountering it, they might suffer life drain and death due to the inherent danger of the anomaly.

This is probably why the residents who originally lived in this vicinity moved away from this area."

After hearing Jom’s explanation, Anvis nodded silently, indicating that he understood.

In short, the Challenge Level of this area is only 20+

And him, bringing guards of level eighty-plus, directly overpowered it by their level, making the black humanoid shape that was supposed to ’welcome’ him too scared to come out, only able to shiver inside the fireplace.

Finally, after scanning the now completely empty room, Anvis turned off True Vision.

On the wall in front of him, there was now only a faint rectangular outline left, proving that something had existed there before.

Although he could not figure out the source of the attraction of the painting, it was very likely caused by that black shadow.

Shaking his head, no longer considering the matter of the painting, Anvis left the abandoned house with Jom.

But just as the two had just left the scope of the ruins, a sudden anomaly occurred around them!

Several bizarre dark green star-shaped Spell effects suddenly materialized out of thin air and swiftly flew towards their figures.

At the same time, on the ground beside them, a huge black tentacle burst out of the soil, suddenly binding towards them!